Category Archives: Comics

There’s nothing I like more than someone being a little subversive in their work. I’m not sure if that’s actually Adam Hughes’ intention in the new Betty & Veronica but that’s what worked for me on a couple different levels in this freshman effort. The relaunch of the Archie brand has moved on to its master plan, getting one of the premier cheesecake pinup artists in the industry to draw Riverdale’s two most famous sweethearts and as a bonus the same guy is writing the book as well. By the second word bubble we get the phrase “Our Titular Heroines” and

Cedar Rapids Comic Con was a comic convention held in my hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Last year I attended the warm up convention for this one titled “NewBo Con” at the local city market. The organizer, Preston Moore, was testing the waters for a Comic Con in Cedar Rapids and had a lot of support and success in a smaller venue so for the second year he took the plunge and moved to a larger downtown convention center with more room, more vendors, more panels, more gaming, you get the idea. I thought it would be fun to support the convention and promote

Are you suffering from reboot fatigue? Have Jurassic World and Terminator Genisys spiked your attention but ultimately left you feeling hollow and unfulfilled? Are you convinced there are truly no original ideas left with Hollywood recasting Spiderman yet again and Ben Affleck taking up the bat cowl? Then let me turn you on to a reboot that gets it right, everyone’s favorite high school redhead Archie relauched this week an all new #1 and amazingly it was pretty good. I should preface this with the fact I have zero history with Archie. I have a faint memory of a Saturday

Last Summer Whoopi Goldberg made the exclusive announcement on The View that the new Thor would be a woman. A sentence no one would have ever guessed would be written ever. The internet shortly after filled comment sections to the brim with the eternal battle of nerd rage vs feminism and everything in between. I remember hearing the announcement and, not being a huge Thor fan or into comics in general, not really thinking much of it. I do remember seeing the first image with the masked new Thor and the inky eyes and thinking the design was pretty cool

I (along with a million other poseurs) got swept back into the comic book store in early January with the arrival of Marvel’s Star Wars #1. Star Wars #1 being a Disney property now, and being ripe for comic continuity rebooting was a roaring success for Marvel, selling the most issues of a comic book in a long time and it also had an interesting side effect of getting lots of randoms back into comic book stores. The circle was now complete as Vader once said. I had become the very neck beard I had seen as a child, wandering the comic store